Though best known for its waterfalls and hiking, Eagle Creek also provides essential habitat for 350,000 coho and winter steelhead released by the Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery each year

Punchbowl Falls plunges 36' into a namesake-shaped bowl along Eagle Creek; though far from the tallest waterfall in the gorge, it can be among the most voluminous

Tunnel Falls drops 165' along a narrow canyon of columnar basalt along East Fork Eagle Creek just before its confluence with the main stem

The eponymous tunnel of Tunnel Falls was created in favor of a more expensive and complex bridge across the canyon

A 'Punchbowl' waterfall is essentially the same as a 'Plunge' waterfall (a vertical drop where water doesn't touch the rock face); the distinction lies in the plunge pool, which has a pronounced circular shape

Bigleaf maple favor gravelly, moist soils along creeks, rivers and lakes; mature trees may produce 3-6 gallons of sap per year, with about 35 gallons of sap required to make 1 gallon of syrup

The Eagle Creek Trail gains only 1129' (net) in 5.9 miles to Tunnel Falls

The Columbia River Basalt Group is the principal rock unit in the gorge, comprising a series of basalt flows that erupted 17-6M years ago

Several sections of the Eagle Creek Trail run high across high, narrow ledges with cables for added assurance

A spur just past High Bridge located within a group of campsites leads to good views across the top of Skoonichuk Falls, a two-tiered plunge totalling 48' (height source: waterfallsnorthwest.com)